After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians banded together to save a beloved heirloom squash.

These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.

On the island of Mallorca, locals celebrate their viticulture with parades, grape-stomping contests, and a massive fruit fight.

Welcome to the olympics of oyster shucking.

An ardent celebration of a humble source of protein.

Apples are red, blueberries are blue / But these pommes d’amour are red inside, too.

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus.

This French Creole Christmas Eve tradition takes midnight munchies to a whole new level.

In Venezuela, traditional Christmas bread marries ham, raisins, and olives.

A Canadian pudding that's boiled in a bag and is interchangeably lunch and dessert.

This Canadian variety of a classic Mediterranean herb gives Acadian cuisine its signature fragrance.

Not all poutine comes with cheese curds and gravy.

A sweet, warm cocktail to chase away the chill of Andean nights.

Deer antlers were once essential to light and fluffy baking.

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

Slovakian winters call for a honey-and-bacon hot brandy cocktail.

Some families keep their holiday meal fresh by letting it live in their bathtub.

This sweet spud is neither made with tubers, nor of Irish origin.

Wrap a slice of pizza around a cheesesteak to create this decadent mashup.

In Asia, the black-skinned silkie chicken forms the base of a medicinal broth.

A few Baltimore bakeries still serve this cheesecake named after 19th-century cottage cheese.

In a Romanian village, a cave's unique conditions produce a rare, funky cheese.

The Sardinian cheese that wriggles with maggots.